Plus Five Consulting was a private security consulting service offered by Robert W. Baldwin. We sadly lost Bob in August 2007. He dedicated his life to software security and the protection of users of the internet. This site is maintained in his honor.

Plus Five Consulting helps companies quickly add valuable
security features to their products. We also perform security
assessments to help your product meet the needs of
global companies, major studios and music publishers.
We have greatly reduced the time that several clients spent passing
the rigorous FIPS-140-2 validation process at levels 1, 2 and 3.
Our goal is to quickly give your products
a competitive advantage in your marketplace.

Plus Five Consulting has helped numerous clients ranging from
start-ups to multi-nationals and has expertise in many markets
including Wireless, Handhelds, Content Distribution, Databases,
Operating Systems, and Network Appliances.

Plus Five Consulting supports you in many ways, including:

Engineering Support
Plus Five will review your current software designs -
from one specific feature to your entire product line;
will recommend improvements; or will architect, design,
and implement security features into your product from
the ground up.

FIPS-140 Validation Support
We minimize the schedule and resource impact of FIPS-140
validation by assisting in design, writing the required
documents and arguing on your behalf.

Product Marketing Support
We will help you carefully select features to be
included in your Product Marketing roadmap to
optimize your Return on Investment and achieve
your Marketing goals.

Business Development Support
Plus Five will assist you in your build versus
buy decisions, including providing technical due
diligence on technology acquisitions.

Legal Support
We will help you to create intellectual property
by converting your product designs into patents.
Plus Five will also find prior art to proactively
avoid patent litigation, or to defend your company
against a specific lawsuit.

Past projects that Plus Five Consulting has completed for its customers,
so that they can meet the needs of their customers, include:

Provided formal security review of digital TV satellite receiver
box to help meet the security requirements of a major Hollywood studio.

Selected and designed security features for PDA OS to gain competitive
advantage in the enterprise market. Created security road map.
Designed small, fast, cryptographic library and protocol formats
tailored to wireless e-mail application. Enhanced government sales by
quickly complete a FIPS-140 evaluation of the cryptographic library.